The purpose of the conference is to analyze the challenges facing the development of MMEs due to non-availability of IFS and studying the ways and means to develop the IFS and the related infrastructures with a view to enhancing the access of MMEs to financial services.

The main Conference theme: “Economic Integration into the European Union-Challenges and Opportunities”. Subthemes: - Competition, Innovation and Economic Growth - Accounting Standardization - Monetary Policies and Supervision of Banking - Finance and Risk Portfolio Management

FOCUS: Credit Risk, Risk Management, Derivative Pricing, High Dimensional Quantitative Methods and other areas of Quantitative Finance

Topics: Consolidation of Banking and Financial Services Institutions; Valuation and Financial Modeling; Role of Technology Advancements; Cross-border M&As; M&As and Efficiency Studies; Economies of scale and scope associated with M&As; Basel II and Risk Management; Legal and Regulatory Aspects; Human...

Topics: - the effects of the terms of trade on the economy - financial intermediation and monetary policy - DSGE estimation, factor models and policy evaluations - learning and DSGE estimation

The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 2008 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The tentative outline of the course is: 1. The Basic New Keynesian Model 2. Monetary Policy Design in the Basic New Keynesian Model a Baseline Model for Monetary Policy Analysis 3. Extensions of the Basic NK Model(I) 4. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (II) 5. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (III)

In Europe, the past decade has been marked by relatively strong employment growth, while labour productivity and labour shares have experienced a decline in a number of countries, in particular in the euro area. Understanding the patterns, sources and implications of employment dynamics is...